bob costas thinks so. he said the culture ensures more disputes will end in death. >> in the coming days, jovan belcher's actions and possible connection to football will be analyzed. who knows? but here wrote jason whitlock is what i believe. if belcher didn't possess a gun he and kasandra perkins would be alive today. >> the comments cause add firestorm on twitter. i wonder if it occurred that if belcher's girlfriend had had a gun with her she might be alive tonight. nah. this, a woman killed her husband with a shovel yesterday. should we have stricter regulations at home depot? yet this is no laughing matter. women six more times likely than men to be killed in a domestic dispute. nearly 38% of female murder victims in 2010 were killed by a husband or boyfriend. the justice department says guns are used in more than half the cases of intimate homicide. talk back today, should the perkins/belcher tragedy cause us to rethink gun control? facebook.com/carolcnn. your comments later this hour. >>> but first,

." >>> bob costas steps outside football to discuss gun control. it's so great that the nbc sportscaster had to hit the air waves to defend himself. >> how do you feel about the right to bear arms. >> obviously americans have a right to bear arms. i'm not looking to repeal the second amendment. >> costas has gone too far. >>> a fox contributor caught on tape saying that ales and rupert murdoch wanted him to run for president and ailes might quite the network to help him. >> he said if you're offering chairman, take it. if you're offering nels else, don't take it, resign and run for president. okay. i know you're not running for president but at some point you way management to chat with roger. >> well, rupert's after me as well. >> was ales crossing the line or was fox analysis kmt t. mcfarland just exaggerating. jake tapper travels to tell the story of brave american joerlds who fought and in some cases died there. we'll ask him why this war has vanished from the media's radar screen. >>> conversation with soledad o'brien. >>> plus, a veteran repo

they put forth their best efforts to smear bob costas in the process. >> bob costas in the standards of our industry deserves to be fired for these remarks. >> he's a ghoul. >> it's a fantasy land to waste time thinking if i had a magic wand, i would get rid of all the guns and we would have world peace. >> i don't know if it's appropriate less than 24 hours after the event to make that stance. >> when is it appropriate to talk about gun control in america? jovan belcher could have used any number of weapons to kill his girlfriend kasandra perkins. but having a gun in the house sure made it a hell of a lot easier. in a year we have seen tragedy after tragedy, whether it be in the streets of chicago or the movie theater in colorado, we as a country seem to accept it. the gun lobby is winning. in fact, nra ceo is out fear mongering today. he's accusing bob costas of trying to piggy backing his social agenda. he told cnn he expects an unprecedented fight over gun control in congress next year, yet he would not give any specific legislative examples. he says "i think it's going to come h

right, bob? >> ted nugent issued a quote saying we thought bob costas was smarter than that. only fools blame tools instead of human failings. >> jon: how come that guy doesn't have to shut up and sing? or shut up and whatever it is that he does. i'm beginning to figure out the rules though. if you want to talk about ghoul violence, gun culture, gun control you have to be a gun expert not just a sports cast or amuse i cannian. even the right person can't talk about it too soon after a tragedy. disrespectful. how long do you have to wait to say there should be more guns after a tragedy? like the shooting in oslo. >> you have 600 people there on that island, and the security procedures that were there were not noneffective. if you don't have a gun, you don't have security. i have a big laugh when they ask me for security guards but we don't want them to have a gun. if you don't have security with a gun then you're not having security. >> jon: that's the thing about these norwegians. let me tell you something. they don't understand how much you need guns. it's a harpoon culture.

costas spewing sanctimoniuos because bob costas who is host of football night actually mentioned the biggest thing that happened in football this weekend. it happened saturday morning when jovan belcher shot and killed his 22-year-old girlfriend in front of their 3-month-old daughter and belcher's own mother. he then drove to work where he met with his head coach and general manager and thanked them for all they had done for him, then he went out in their parking lot, saw police approaching, and shot himself in the head. football being football and by that, of course, i mean football being big business, the game, and by that i mean the big business must go on and so, of course, the kansas city chiefs played their money making game the next day. the football business was hoping that tv football commentators would ignore the biggest thing that happened in football this weekend. but bob costas could not. >> in the aftermath of the nearly unfathomable events in kansas city, the mindless sports cliches was heard yet again. something like this really puts it all in perspective. well, if so

not have bob costas spew liberal b.s. to me. >> bob: unless he was spewing pro-gun stuff. you'd like that. >> eric: absolutely not. >> bob: he made a number of good points. i admire him and support everything he said. he said i can't think of one football player that carry the guns that uses them to defend themselves. i want to know how many people in america defend themselves having a gun and how many like to have them around. >> greg: 2.5 million. >> bob: that is the nra crap. >> greg: get to my stats in a minute. >> dana: two things, what caught my eye today. bob costas said it again. this is the fault of a dirty harry wild west culture. dirty harry was part of law enforcement. >> greg: he was chasing a serial killer. what does costas want instead in bonnie and clyde culture? texas chainsaw massacre culture? is that better than a culture somebody protects themselves? what keeps people safe are guns. every time he opens his mouth, brain cells kess cape. these are facts that they hate. 1.5 of accidental fatalities from the firearms, betting and bags killing 18 times for k

people are as fed up as bob costas is with the state of affairs, currently. people want change, and they want to see the president lead when it comes to that change. >> you were on this show a couple of months ago actually when i was out in denver, you had just come out with your ad with this unbelievably 30 second powerful ad begging and pleading at some point in the presidential debates for somebody to discuss gun control. you were in that movie theater shot. you look great your life was altered. has the white house responded called you said anything? >> no, not directly, and, you know, that's tough but we're hopeful, really, that we'll be able to reach out to them in the next term. >> and then am i right that the argument and maybe i can say this more easily, because as somebody who is in politics, you know the calculus people would run. the penalty says i can't lose, those swing voters will cost me pennsylvania ohio, wisconsin. he got reelected had those voters, but now he doesn't need them. there is no next time. what is the possible rationale? why have

could it outrage over the bob costa gun control lecture. ainsleainsley earhardt standing. >>> northern california will get no break from the wet and windy weather tomorrow. another significant system expected to move in, dumping rain on the area tomorrow through wednesday. heavy downpours for the past five days dropping 15 to 20 inches of rain pushing rivers over their banks. meteorologists predicting torrential rain tomorrow across the sierras. >>> one of the nation's largest teachers unions proposing a tough exam that teachers have to pass before entering their profession. a new report by the american federation of teachers says the exam would produce more qualified educators. the aft saying they don't want to just wait and see if a teacher's students will sink or swim. the test being compared to the bar exam for lawyers. i'm ainsley earhardt. back to on the record with greta. >> greta: political football. broadcaster bob costas using last night's halftime show to lecture sports fans about gun control. his speech sparked by the murder-sui

i don't fun why bob costas can't say this. megyn: not being a sports fan i didn't realize bob costas does offer his opinion in these halftime moment. so it's not unusual for him to be opinionated. this is not something people don't have opinions on. >> here is the comparison. i can express an opinion. if megyn were to come out and say today black americans should not be able to vote she would be suggesting you take away a civil right under the constitution. megyn: that's not something being debated in the country. gun laws whether you are on the right or left, that's something we debate in this country. >> we also debate marriage for homosexuals which cost chick-fil-a dearly because people said their ownership did not have the right to have that opinion or express it through contributions to groups. this is absurd to suggest that you can take away the gun from jovan belcher through any means other than denying it to all people. when he said why did he own one? i just suggested to you hundreds of thousands times a year american

they're reacting not at him but at bob costas. here is ted nugent. we thought bob costas was smarter than that. only fools blame tools instead of human failings. shame, bob. this guy talking about shame. remember ted nugent was the rocker who crapped in his pants to get out of vietnam. that embarrassment, that pitiful excuse and you talk about shame. you walked around in your own waste for a week, you coward. shame. then we weapon "g" to matt yoder whoyo--then we go to matt yoder so that's the place where people might pay attention to it. so don't ever talk about it, a when people are paying attention, and b where they're paying attention. just make sure you whisper it in your basement and make sure everyone hears about it. no shout from your rooftops and make sure people hear it over and over again. craig carton said. i thought the beginning of it was very thoughtful, poignant. but when go down that rode of debate, to me, not the place for it. what i love about for the state guys, they talk, oh, let me talk about this coach and that coach and we're

do i really want bob costas giving us a dissertation on the second amendment? >> no! >> why -- how is that courageous? >> because he knows he's going to take a lot of heat. people like you are going to say, alternates the second amendment -- [overlapping dialogue] >> night imitation. well done. >> you got all the gun laws in the world, somebody wants a gun, they are going to go get one. it's called crime. >> we want to know what you think of bob costas' gun control lecture at half-time. much more on this very heated controversy coming up later in the show. tonight, what a mess. just hours ago, house republicans sent president obama a new offer to avoid the fiscal cliff, a counter offer to president obama's plan, proposing raising $800 billion from tax reform, not higher tax rates. but the white house immediately slammed the offer and said it won't even consider it. tonight, speaker boehner's response to the white house response, saying it's up to the president to come up with a plan. allen west is here. good evening. >> good evening. >> your thoughts, apparently the w

: compare sob to bob costas was so far off. >> greg: bob costas was on o'reilly. he was defending himself. or did he? >> you are saying that you want a more stringent program by the authorities. to make it harder to get guns. >> no, you are saying i'm saying that. you asked me, and i believe that there should be comprehensive and effective controls on the sale of guns. >> greg: gobbledygook. his big saucer eyes are hard to resist. i thought he'd jump on his lap and ask for christmas present. what did you make of his performance? >> dana: "b." "b." >> eric: bob costas is entitled to his opinion. fantastic. knock yourself out. but don't do it at halftime on a sunday night football game when people tune in to hear bob talk about the football game, not about gun control. >> dana: he missed the issue. gun control isn't is issue. domestic violence is the issue. >> greg: andrea, you have an interesting story that would have bothered bob costas. >> a young son, 10 tholed jumps in the way by a man trying to murder a woman, i believe it's seattle. he saved his mom's wife be

i absolutely respect and defend bob costas's right to speak about this issue. frankly, i think that the decision of fox and cbs to not mention the issue at all, not to mention -- they didn't mention cas andra perkin's name or javon belcher's name. there was oblique reference to the suicide before the game. fox chose not to mention it at all. the fact that on nbc obvious costas had a real discussion about it, i thought, was brave and admirable, specifically because i don't think fox realized to not talk about it is a political choice, too. you are saying something about perspective, something about the value of human life all of that being said he had 90 seconds to say whatever he could say about the issue. but, if i would have had those 90 seconds, i am not sure that's the key issue for a very simple reason. the problem is certainly gun culture in the broad senses. there is a huge gun culture in the national football league. if a person wants one, they are going to get one legally, illegally, what-have-you. this is an issue more about the national football leag

nbc and bob costas used the tragedy to promote gun control. remember this? >> in the coming days, jovan belcher's actions and the possible connection to football will be analyzed. if belcher didn't possess a gun, he and perkins would both be alive today. >> eric: so after that, bob costas said he wouldn't back track. but now, a couple hours later, costas called the jovan belcher commentary a mistake. he said my mistake and i left it open for too much communication. >> dana: i think bob costas has to say something. getting too much attention for it. i'm sure that nbc didn't like the type of attention he was getting. even if you agree with bob costas, even with the anthem and police honored on the field. but missed communication is another cop out. miscommunication means oops, i could have said it better. remember, we have heard this before in politics. as you remember, i don't have to repeat it. the question i have on this and the new information was the police. they find anymore a bentley and wake up and say hey, don't drive. maybe there is a little bit more

is that a guy that bob costas-- jason whitlock, pardon me, bob costas should be quoting? >> and the kkk, that injection into this tragic so out of place, the press is not focused on the fact that most of the moral outrage here has been directed toward the weapon, towards gun rather than to the actual killer, that's been a huge part of this story that's missing. >> jon: there are 100 million gun owners in this country. hard to equate that with the kkk. up next, controversy over a shocking image. . >> a man gets pushed to his death at a new york city subway stop. the tragic scene captured by a photo journalist and then published by the new york post. did the paper do anything ♪ [ female announcer ] for everything your face has to face. face it with puffs ultra soft & strong. puffs has soft, air-fluffed pillows for 40% more cushiony thickness. face every day with puffs softness. >> this is the scene on monday after the death of a 58-year-old pushed by a homeless man on to the tracks in one of new york's busiest subway stations. the scene caught on video showing the two men

. >>> fire bob costas? the sportscaster responds to critics calling for his job. >> this is just the case of some people don't agree with it or they don't agree with what they think i was saying and, therefore, it would be okay if i was booted off the air. >> he explains exactly what he meant to say at his half-time commentary on gun control. >>> the image that shocked and created so much outrage. this morning we hear from the man who snapped the photo and asked him why? always low prices. what about your mortgage? would you let walmart finance your home loan? >>> imagine spending an entire year away from your family and friends, everything that you love all in the name of science. >>> "newsroom" starts now. >>> good morning. thank you so much for being with me. i'm carol costello. this should be interesting. speaker john boehner meets this morning with house republicans who are angry at his new pitch to raise $800 billion in tax revenue in the fiscal cliff negotiations. president obama has said there will

i am not a big fan of bob costas to begin with. i hear he is god at what he does. ii am not sure who told him this was a good idea. for himself, his career, for the game, for the network, i think the nra got it wrong. i don't think he was making excuses for a murder. murderer. i feel he had this right and maybe he felt a moral obligation to share his experience. >> i always feel like when people do this they -- when they pontif indicate about an issue whether it is right or wrong it is a way to make themselves feel important. wait a couple of days or -- i don't think you are being particularly thoughtful. you have trying to feel important and score points in the media for your beliefs. >> it was too close. i felt like it was kind of like, all right. we live in a 24-hour news cycle. the story will be somewhere else. i like bob costas, but it is like let's go back to the real issue which is grown men giving each other head injuries. that's what i want. >> what you will see is the media will focus on gun control, domestic violence which why not just focus on violence?

i'm interviewing bob costas. a fast development there, seeing players taking responsibility for their own possible lack of responsibility. >> it wasn't my intent to become a spokesperson in any way for this issue. but if no matter how imperfectly i may have done it a week ago sunday, if this has sparked a conversation and in some small way influenced people's behavior, so much the better. front page of the paper, not the sports section, but the front page of "usa today" is about guns in the national football league. there is a gun culture in the national football league. javon belcher had eight guns. for those who say what if kasandra perkins had a gun? there are guns at the house. she would have had to have it holstered to have it ready when javon came bursting through the door. nevertheless, terrell suggs had to turn in his guns because of a legal action. nine guns including shotguns and handguns and what not. tank johnson, his were illegal, but he had a virtual munitions plant in his house in chicago. let's us

bob costas said the following. >> you want some actual perspective on this? well, a bit of it comes from the kansas city based writer jason whit locke with whom i do not always agree but who today said it so well that m we may as wel, paraphrase from the end of his article. our current gun culture, whitlock wrote, ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car wil will leave more teenages bloodied and dead. hand guns do not enhance our safety, but here wrote jason whitlock, is what i believe. if jo vai belcher did not possea hand gun, he and ca sa cassandrr perkins would both be alive today. >> sean: many reports are emerging that the nfl player was suffering from repeated head injuries as well as painkiller addiction all of which would make costas' comments sound more premature, absurd, and opportunistic. here with reaction is eric rush, leo terrell. leo. sosomebody is hell bent on killg season. you're friends with o.j. simpson. he was found liabl

and bob costas is satan now. >> we'll have some of that coming up in right-wing world. >> stephanie: good tease. nicely done. >> stephanie: thank you. >> stephanie: jay carney. >> what we hope for is specificity from republicans. >> stephanie: and they gone none. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: this is what mitt romney was criticized for, was he was not specific. >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: and the math just does not work. jay carney again. >> making vague promises about achieving revenue through capping deductions or closing loopholes simply doesn't add up to a serious proposal. >> stephanie: yes, exactly. -- their proposal is the one that is unserious. >> flabbergasted about it's unserousness,ness,ness. >> stephanie: it's like oh please boner. did he rehearse that? oh my god you can't be serious. i'm flabbergasted -- because you already commented on it back in october. he literally -- boner literally said i have never seen anything like it. >> it's outrageous. >> computer says yes. >> stephanie: yes, you have. >> flabbergasted! >> stephanie: i'm telling you he rehearsed at the tavern. >> an

my first thought here is bob costas is in his right to say whatever he wants to say and hold whatever position he wants to hold. i personally have a pretty nuanced position on this issue in general. you know, i think the nra, gun owners of america go too far in imposing any kind of restriction on gun rights. they think you should be able to own anything in any number and carry it in any place at any time, and that i disagree with but what i would say is let's leave the constitution out this because i think that's a complicated argument as well. what i would say is if you want to infringe on liberty and say you can't do x, y or z, i think the burden of proof has to be on you for why there's a societal need for infringing on that liberty. i've looked into this because i'm sort of on the fence on the issue. i looked back at the 2008 landmark supreme court case about the handgun ban in d.c. justice breyer who was a dissenter in the case and considered a liberal justice looked at the evidence for whether a ban on handguns reducing violence and said that the upshot is a stet of studies and

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tomorrow bob costas will appear on the factor to explain his remarks. he finds himself in the middle of a controversy we are anxious to hear his point of view. another guy who has inserted himself into the story kansas city sports writer jason whitlock who cease it that way. >> i believe the nra is the new kkk and the army of so -- arming of some black youths and loading up our communities with drugs and having an open shooting gallery is the work of people that, you know, obviously don't have our best interest. >> bill: what a bunch of bull. we invited mr. whitlock on the program tonight. is he hiding under his desk. he knows he can't defend that position. here a bulletin to whitlock. no society can protect a society against a guy like belcher. it's hard wired into some people. this deflexion into guns or race simply nonsense. we are living in a time of denial. our cultured is cluttered for excuses for bad behavior. it's always somebody else's fault not the individual screwing up. all of us make mistakes how many of us own up? talk to teenagers today y

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murder-suicide and the unusual commentary that followed from nbc sport caster bob costas. on saturday morning, kansas city chiefs linebacker jovan belcher murdered the mother of his 3-month-old child. girlfriend cassandra perkins at their home. he drove to the team's practice facility and turned the gun on nims front of his coach and general manager. no one knows what set him off. but costas thinks he knows the reason. here he is on sunday night football. >> you want actual perspective on this? a bit comes from jason whitlock who i don't agree but today said it so well we may as well just quote or paraphrase from the and of his article. our current gun culture, whitlock wrote, ensure more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy an more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodieed and dead. handguns do not bring safety. they exacerbate our flaws and bait us to embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it. in the coming daying, jovan belcher's action and the possible connection to football wi

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bob costas brought one of them into the arena last night. when he quoted a kansas city sports writer named jason whitlock who assigned some the blame for the horrible crime to gun possession. >> our current gun culture, whitlock wrote ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy and that more convenient store confrontations over loud music coming from darr will lead more teenage boys bloody and dead. they exacerbate our flaws tempt us to arguments and tempt us to confrontation rather than avoiding it. >> even if you believe what costas and whitlock are putting out there, what's the solution? the constitution gives americans the right to protect themselves,s that clear. many parts of the country people need hand guns in order to feel secure against criminals who might harm them. talking points has long felt that criminals who use handguns should be punished more harshly than they are now. in fact, all gun crimes in america should be federalized and that includes illegal possession. the level of aggression that

bob costas of nbc spoke out about this. let's watch what he said tonight. >> i believe that there should be more comprehensive and effective controls on the sale of guns. roughly 40% of the guns purchased in this country do not require a background check for purchasing. i don't see any reason why someone should be able to purchase military style or body armor or weapons. only the police and the military should have that. >> let's start off. you've been giving me a holler on twitter about this. you are a big gun fan. explain to me why bob costas is wrong? >> it boils down to the ability to protect yourself, piers. when you look at what is what happening in syria with the threat of chemical weapons. the only reason they're not going to use it is because somebody else, the u.s., has a similar threat of using a similar weapon. as a gun owner, you have to be able to protect yourself. if you are damaged and you are willing to take somebody else's life. that comes down to that person is not going to obey the gun laws. they are goi